John, This is unrelated to this post, but I wanted to ask if you would do a review of Toy Story 3, if you've seen it. I always appreciate your perspectives, especially on cg stuff, and I'm sure many of your readers would be interested to hear what you have to say about the movie.

It is good, but it is not near the quality of Josie and the Pussiecats.

The years it must have taken, the countless drafts done to give the full gamut of expressions to each character. It makes the soul cry.

On a serious note, Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips offends my sensibilities less then Josie and the Pussiecats and the only reason this saw any success was peddling this pernicious product to impressionable kids.

Sorry to repeat but the cartoon needs it (since it is persona non grata for being released on even a lacklustre DVD), your opinion and evaluation of Bugs Bunny Nips the NIps.

I think you'll be impressed by a lot of the animation. The incinerator scene was very well executed and even scared me. The villain (Lotso the Bear) is just another Stinky Pete, with a little bit more depth and personality to him. Overall, I liked the movie, and thought it was a good ending to the trilogy. The 3-D ticket is definitely worth paying for and does the movie some justice.

Manga Studio is an outstanding inking program provided you have a tablet. Yes, it's Japanese but there's no other software on the market that allows you to freehand draw with ink like this program does. The best thing is the "debut" version of the software is all you really need and it's only 50 bucks. The "EX" version which is like 400 bucks comes with ugly 3D rendering which no one here would bother with.

I'm totally picking one up for my lil' cousins- with a George Liquor shirt for me, of course.Also- I remember you said if someone donate or bought a drawing from you, you'd take a look at some of their studies. Any chance you are still up for that? I'm thinking about scanning a few in this week.

Inkscape looks an open source corel/illustrator option. There's nothing wrong with that, unless you want actually draw and "ink" with a tablet. Just because Manga Studio has "manga" in the title doesn't make it an unfit tool to do exactly that.

If it makes you feel any better, it's called "Comic Studio" in its native country.